Comment 10 for bug 719873

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Hector Ordorica (hechacker1) wrote : Re: sky2 module causes network problems

I have the same issue. It gets to the point with the 3.0.0 kernel that the sky2 module crashes. I have to rmmod sky2, and modprobe sky2 over and over to get it to reset.

[ 260.873035] net_ratelimit: 12 callbacks suppressed
[ 260.873042] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 261.684594] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 261.986596] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 262.217677] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 262.420074] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 262.506982] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 263.114275] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 263.201233] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 263.316935] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 263.707558] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 266.946082] net_ratelimit: 7 callbacks suppressed
[ 266.946096] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 267.510053] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 267.741724] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468
[ 268.755107] sky2 0000:05:00.0: eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1468

However, if I set the boot option irqpoll, it still produces the above output, but at least it doesn't completely fail.